Medium – Aidan Mackenzie
In a published work titled The Social Brain of Language: Grounding Second Language Learning in Social Interaction, researchers Ping Li and Hyeonjeong Jeong put forth a new idea: that all of these components must be complemented with a social atmosphere. This is how we make our language learning matter to our brains. In the study, the authors theorized — and later demonstrated with neuroimaging — that when we learn things in a social setting, more areas of the brain are activated.